RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil’s Minas Gerais state labor prosecutors’ office said on Thursday it had frozen more than 800 million reais ($219 million) of miner Vale’s (VALE3.SA) funds as compensation for victims of a deadly tailings dam burst.
(This version of the story corrects headline and paragraph 1 to show funds frozen by state labor prosecutors, not state labor ministry)
Reporting by Pedro Fonseca; Editing by Christian Plumb